Overview

You administer Flex with a combination of configuration file settings and application server settings. Flex runs as an application on your J2EE server, therefore, many settings such as security, access control, and virtual directory mapping are done using the web application server's configuration utilities rather than using the Flex configuration files.

The following table describes the most common configuration files that you use to configure the Flex environment:

File	Description
flex_app_root/WEB-INF/web.xml	Configures your Flex application to run on the J2EE web application server. You use this file to define context parameters, filters, servlet mappings, JSP tag libraries, error handling, and other settings for your web application. You should not edit the web.xml file unless you are adding additional functionality to your web application or you are configuring Flex to run on a Macromedia ColdFusion server. For more information, see the Flex installation instructions.
flex_app_root/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml	Configures Flex. You use this file to define debugging, compiler, cache, proxy, logging, font and other settings for Flex. This is the file that you most often edit to change the behavior of the Flex application running on your application server.
flex_app_root/WEB-INF/flex/gateway-config.xml	Configures the Macromedia Flash Remoting gateway. You can configure service adapters, security, logging, and other settings for Flash Remoting using this file.

File

Description

flex_app_root/WEB-INF/web.xml

Configures your Flex application to run on the J2EE web application server. You use this file to define context parameters, filters, servlet mappings, JSP tag libraries, error handling, and other settings for your web application.

You should not edit the web.xml file unless you are adding additional functionality to your web application or you are configuring Flex to run on a Macromedia ColdFusion server. For more information, see the Flex installation instructions.

flex_app_root/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml

Configures Flex. You use this file to define debugging, compiler, cache, proxy, logging, font and other settings for Flex. This is the file that you most often edit to change the behavior of the Flex application running on your application server.

flex_app_root/WEB-INF/flex/gateway-config.xml

Configures the Macromedia Flash Remoting gateway. You can configure service adapters, security, logging, and other settings for Flash Remoting using this file.

This chapter includes the following topics:

Performing off-line compilation using the command line compiler. This mxmlc utility compiles MXML files into SWF files.
Compiling components using the compc utility. This tool compiles SWC files from MXML or ActionScript class files.
Setting configuration options in the flex-config.xml file. You use this file to define compiler, debugging, proxy, and other settings for Flex.
Configuring Flex logging.

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